John Young wrote:
> A point in Google's favor:
>
> At 20:54 ET yesterday Google.CN lifted its ban on images of the
> Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
Ahem, that's a MAJOR point in Google's favor. Almost
everyone surely realizes that any image of Tiananmen square
massacre, or indeed, knowledge of the event, is restricted
to people who use proxies - a large number, certainly, but a
clear minority of the population judging by the sociological
studies on exactly those images and that knowledge.
It seems that a global corporation is now doing battle with
a an extremely powerful state on the terrain of information.
A rare event. Or there is an extremely convoluted strategy
that we cannot yet understand. One way or another, how
fascinating!
best, Brian
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